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Meaning of MORTISE in English

A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.

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    Meaning of MORTISE in English

    • A cavity cut into a piece of timber, or other material, to receive something (as the end of another piece) made to fit it, and called a tenon.
    • To cut or make a mortisein.
    • To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder.

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